Leader vs Scrum Master, what is the difference between a scrum master and an agile coach?
6 min readApr 5, 2023
What is the difference between a scrum master and an agile leader?
Before I answer that question, what is the difference between a scrum master and an agile coach? $200 a day.
A scrum master should
- be working at all levels of the organization;
- working with other teams of teams;
- helping people to understand how scrum works;
- how agile works; AND
- also working as a change agent across the organization to try and help expand carefully the footprint of agility.
The difference between a scrum master and a leader
If you start with the scrum master, what should a scrum master be doing?
- Scrum master should be observing through whatever senses they have, for example, seeing sensing, smelling, seeing the body language, and observing what’s going on. That means a lack of judgment. Eg, I observe that when you behave like this, something happened and so on.